This Week’s Top Stories Include American Idol hosts virtual Delaware auditions Sept. 9 Relief in sight for Route 9 communities after decades of heavy truck traffic Julieta Zavala’s Mercado Kitsch México exhibit starts Friday What gov, lt gov candidates want to say in campaign signs Mobile Holocaust museum comes to Delaware Jan. 2025 Click on the image below to view …
Five Delawareans have been selected as the 2024 Delaware Business Leaders Hall of Fame Laureates. Picked by the board of directors of Junior Achievement of Delaware and Delaware Business Leaders Hall of Fame board, the recognition honors those who serve as role models to thousands of Delaware youth. This year’s class focuses on the arts and Wilmington Riverfront, and inductees …
The city of Wilmington and CityFest Inc. showed off their new Urban Artist Exchange and the work of its 21 teen summer apprentice artists at an open house last weekend. The event coincided with Wilmington Open Streets and featured storytelling as well as a drumming and dance performance at the nearby amphitheater. “Because we had a critical mass of people …
Ask Serena Joy — a Wilmington poet, rapper and storyteller — to tell you a story, and she starts with a little girl and a dandelion. The little girl loves dandelions partly because she likes blowing the tiny flowers off the stem. She joyously takes some to her grandmother, who shoos her and the flower away. “That’s a weed,” she …
Sungmin Bobyak expected that painting a ladybug mural on a utility box near the Trolley Square fountain plaza would be a solitary experience. It wasn’t. Drivers honked and yelled compliments out of their windows as they drove by. People who were walking by stopped to talk, some thanking her profusely for creating the public artwork. “I thought I would go …
The 35th rendition of the largest free jazz festival on the East Coast returns to Wilmington June 15-18 with the Clifford Brown Jazz Festival featuring Stanley Clark among its line-up. New this year: The festival will be cohosted by Clifford Brown Jr. The festival is named for trumpeter and Wilmington native resident Clifford Brown, known as “Brownie.” He died …
Eric Mills (here with Krista Apple in 2018’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing,’ will play Oberon in Del Shakes’ ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream.’ Photo by Alessandra Nicole/Delaware Shakespeare Delaware Shakespeare will host free outdoor performances of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in Rodney Square next month. The group says it will transform Rodney Square into a “magical forest where confused lovers, …
The 34th annual Clifford Brown Jazz Festival returns to Rodney Park Wednesday and will wind up Sunday with a nationally known hip hop dancer and choreographer who was born in Wilmington. During the week, after-concert jam sessions will feature visiting and local musicians. The festival recommends following all state COVID-19 guidelines, including wearing a mask if you’re not vaccinated. …
The Clifford Brown Jazz Festival’s 2018 version in Rodney Square. The Clifford Brown Jazz Festival is coming home. The Wilmington event, named for a native trumpeter who died young in a car accident, was livestreamed during the pandemic, but returns to Rodney Square Aug. 4-8. Considered the largest jazz festival on the East Coast, it will feature local and …
